README file for:

“Measurement Error When Surveying Issue Positions: A MultiTrait MultiError Approach”

Political Science Research and Methods

Kim Backström, Alexandru Cernat, Rasmus Sirén, and Peter Söderlund

2025-04-15


***** Instructions *****

1) Set the working directory to the folder where this README.txt is located.

2) Place the data files in the same folder:
   - 2023-08-25mtme_clean.sav: main data file
   - t1_nonresp.sav: data file to study nonresponse in T1
   - t2_nonresp.sav: data file to study nonresponse in T2

3) Run the r-script (mtme_clean.r)


***** Machine Information *****

The replication was conducted on Windows 10 Education (Version 10.0.19045) with 16 GB RAM and an Intel Core i5-1335U processor (13th Gen, 10 cores, 12 threads).


***** Session Information *****

R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] writexl_1.5.3      gtsummary_2.0.4    blavaan_0.5-8      Rcpp_1.0.13-1      viridis_0.6.5     
 [6] viridisLite_0.4.2  ggcorrplot_0.1.4.1 haven_2.5.4        lavaan_0.6-19      lubridate_1.9.4   
[11] forcats_1.0.0      stringr_1.5.1      dplyr_1.1.4        purrr_1.0.2        readr_2.1.5       
[16] tidyr_1.3.1        tibble_3.2.1       ggplot2_3.5.1      tidyverse_2.0.0   

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] gtable_0.3.6        QuickJSR_1.5.1      inline_0.3.21       CompQuadForm_1.4.3  lattice_0.22-6     
 [6] tzdb_0.4.0          quadprog_1.5-8      vctrs_0.6.5         tools_4.4.2         generics_0.1.3     
[11] stats4_4.4.2        curl_6.2.0          parallel_4.4.2      sandwich_3.1-1      pkgconfig_2.0.3    
[16] Matrix_1.7-1        RcppParallel_5.1.9  tmvnsim_1.0-2       lifecycle_1.0.4     compiler_4.4.2     
[21] munsell_0.5.1       mnormt_2.1.1        codetools_0.2-20    bayesplot_1.11.1    pillar_1.10.0      
[26] StanHeaders_2.32.10 parallelly_1.42.0   rstan_2.32.6        digest_0.6.37       tidyselect_1.2.1   
[31] future_1.34.0       mvtnorm_1.3-2       stringi_1.8.4       listenv_0.9.1       nonnest2_0.5-8     
[36] grid_4.4.2          colorspace_2.1-1    cli_3.6.3           magrittr_2.0.3      loo_2.8.0          
[41] pkgbuild_1.4.6      future.apply_1.11.3 pbivnorm_0.6.0      withr_3.0.2         scales_1.3.0       
[46] timechange_0.3.0    globals_0.16.3      matrixStats_1.5.0   gridExtra_2.3       zoo_1.8-12         
[51] hms_1.1.3           coda_0.19-4.1       V8_6.0.0            rstantools_2.4.0    rlang_1.1.4        
[56] glue_1.8.0          rstudioapi_0.17.1   jsonlite_1.8.9      R6_2.5.1           
